IT’S a dream anyone with a passport fantasizes about once in a while: ditching everything to travel the world for a year, or at least long enough to forget about office life. Acting out that fantasy tends to be reserved for retirees and recent college graduates, but some midcareer globe-trotters hope to show that anyone can hop off the treadmill and go travel. “Once you get outside the confines of your day-to-day life, you discover things about yourself,” said Sherry Ott, a New Yorker who quit her middle-management job in 2006 to travel and who now wants to inspire others to take the leap. Read FULL STORY.